60 February 6, AD 60 is the earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday). In modern reckoning, this date would have been a Wednesday.
1515 Italian printer/publisher Aldus Manutius died on February 6, 1515. His publishing legacy includes the distinctions of inventing italic type. He was also one of the pioneers of modern punctuation, establishing the modern use of the semicolon and developing the modern appearance of the comma. Below is a page from Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an illustrated book printed by Aldus Manutius
1665 Queen Anne of Great Britain was born at 11:39 p.m. on February 6, 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of James, Duke of York (afterwards James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. As a child, Anne suffered from an eye condition, which manifested as excessive watering known as "defluxion". For medical treatment, she was sent to France, where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Queen Henrietta Maria, at the Château de Colombes near Paris.
1685 Charles II of England was treated with mercury for his syphilis. He collapsed when the resulting kidney poisoning kicked in and the doctors forced him to vomit violently, shaved the ailing monarch's head, applied blistering agents to his scalp, put a special potion made from pigeon droppings on his feet and made him drink 40 drops of extract from a mixture of powdered human skull and stones from the intestines of a Persian goat. He died four days later aged 54 on February 6, 1685.
1685 When Charles II died on February 6, 1685, he was succeeded by his brother James, who reigned in England and Ireland as James II, and in Scotland as James VII. His reign is best known for his attempts to procure religious liberty for English Roman Catholics and Protestant nonconformists. James attempted to impose them by decree; ultimately led to his removal in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
1783 English gardener and architect Capability Brown died on February 6, 1783, in Hertford Street, London, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget. Brown established a purely English style of garden lay-out, using simple artifices to produce natural effects, as in the laid-out gardens at Blenheim, Kew, Stowe, Warwick Castle. He was widely criticized, but during the 20th century his popularity returned as a result of a favorable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's History of Garden Art.
1804 During his last years in America, theologian and physicist Joseph Priestley spent his time writing and experimenting. On February 3, 1804, Priestley began an experiment in his Pennsylvania home, but found himself too weak to continue. He retired to his bed where he remained for the next three days. Priestley passed away there, aged seventy on the morning of February 6. 1804, Priestley was buried at Riverview Cemetery in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
1819 British official, Sir Stamford Raffles first stepped on an island known locally as ‘Singapura’ on January 29, 1819. A week later, on February 6, 1819, he signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, which established Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company.
1820 The first 86 African American immigrants left New York on February 6, 1820 to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. The emigrants started to establish a settlement on what is now the coast of Liberia. All three whites and 22 of the emigrants died within three weeks from yellow fever. The settlement was named Liberia, which is "Land of the Free" in Latin, because it was founded by freed American slaves.
1840 The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first signed on February 6, 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand. The Treaty of Waitangi gave Britain control of New Zealand while recognizing the native inhabitants' land rights. However, the English and Maori texts differed, leading to many controversies over its stipulations.
1843 The first show in America by a group of minstrels, The Original Virginia Minstrels, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City on February 6, 1843. The first uniquely American show business form, the minstrel show, began in the 1840s. These minstrels were white men who painted their faces black and performed songs in crude, often racist, imitations of black musicians.
1851 The Black Thursday bushfires that swept the state of Victoria, Australia on February 6, 1851 are considered the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history, Approximately five million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, was burnt, twelve lives were lost, along with one million sheep.
1895 George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 at 216 Emory Street in the Pigtown section of Baltimore, Maryland. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he learned baseball skills from Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Christian Brothers, a capable baseball player.
1911 Ronald Reagan, the 40th US President, was born to Jack and Nelle Reagan on February 6, 1911 in a small apartment building in Tampico, Illinois. A film star during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Reagan was very active in politics near the end of his acting career, During the 1964 presidential election, he made a famous speech called "A Time For Choosing" in support of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, which is credited with jumpstarting his political career.
1912 Eva Braun was born in Munich on February 6, 1912. She was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger, who had worked as a seamstress before her marriage. Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler, 23 years her senior, at Heinrich Hoffmannin's photographic studio in Munich in October 1929. By the end of 1932 they had become lovers.
1918 On February 6, 1918, the Representation of the People Act was given royal assent, giving votes to women in the UK. Actually it gave votes only to women over 30, who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5 and graduates of British universities. It took another 10 years before women over 21 could vote, giving them parity with men.
1926 The first automated donut-making machine was invented by Adolph Levitt, who launched it at the Trausch Bakery in Dubuque, Iowa on February 6, 1926. This invention revolutionized the doughnut industry and made it possible to produce large quantities of doughnuts quickly and efficiently.
1928 Though his struggles with depression made him initially reject a lucrative job with the USA chemical firm E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., organic chemist Wallace Carothers accepted the offer in the late 1920s. Carothers began working at the DuPont Experimental Station on February 6, 1928. Carothers developed nylon during his time at DuPont and also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene.
1935 Monopoly was invented in 1934 by Charles Darrow, a Pennsylvania heating engineer who had been reduced to selling stoves. Darrow adapted Monopoly from a similar game, The Landlord's Game, devised in 1903 by Lizzie Magie. Monopoly was initially rejected by Parker Bros for having "52 fundamental playing errors." The games manufacturer bought it after Darrow enjoyed great success in selling it himself. Parker Brothers begun selling Monopoly on February 6, 1935.
1945 Reggae star Robert "Bob" Marley was born on February 6, 1945. His birthplace was the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob Marley's father was a English-born White Jamaican who was an officer in the British military. He was 60 years old when he
1952 The stress of World War II took its toll on King George VI of the UK's health exacerbated by his heavy smoking and subsequent development of lung cancer among other ailments, including arteriosclerosis and thromboangiitis obliterans. On the morning of February 6, 1952, George VI died in his bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk from a coronary thrombosis aged 56.
1952 Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth when her father, King George VI, died on February 6, 1952. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1971 Golf is the only sport to have been played on the moon. Apollo 14 Astronaut Alan Shepard stashed away a makeshift six-iron inside his spacecraft and on February 6, 1971, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. His first shot was a mis-hit and only went a few feet, but the second went, as he put it, "miles and miles and miles."
1973 Emily Howell Warner was the first female commercial airline pilot in the US. On February 6, 1973, Howell Warner served for the first time as second officer on a Frontier Airlines Boeing 737. The flight departed from Denver's Stapleton Airport for Las Vegas. This marked an opening for American women in one of the last sex-segregated occupations in the civilian aviation industry.
1988 Michael Jordan won back-to-back slam dunk contest victories in 1987 and in 1988. His victory over Dominique Wilkins on February 6, 1988 in Chicago finished with a perfect 50 dunk from the free-throw line on the far end of the court to win the contest.
1998 Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport on February 6, 1998 to honor President Reagan. It is the nearest commercial airport to the capital and serves the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
1665 Queen Anne of Great Britain was born at 11:39 p.m. on February 6, 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of James, Duke of York (afterwards James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. As a child, Anne suffered from an eye condition, which manifested as excessive watering known as "defluxion". For medical treatment, she was sent to France, where she lived with her paternal grandmother, Queen Henrietta Maria, at the Château de Colombes near Paris.
1685 Charles II of England was treated with mercury for his syphilis. He collapsed when the resulting kidney poisoning kicked in and the doctors forced him to vomit violently, shaved the ailing monarch's head, applied blistering agents to his scalp, put a special potion made from pigeon droppings on his feet and made him drink 40 drops of extract from a mixture of powdered human skull and stones from the intestines of a Persian goat. He died four days later aged 54 on February 6, 1685.
1685 When Charles II died on February 6, 1685, he was succeeded by his brother James, who reigned in England and Ireland as James II, and in Scotland as James VII. His reign is best known for his attempts to procure religious liberty for English Roman Catholics and Protestant nonconformists. James attempted to impose them by decree; ultimately led to his removal in the Glorious Revolution of 1688
1783 English gardener and architect Capability Brown died on February 6, 1783, in Hertford Street, London, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget. Brown established a purely English style of garden lay-out, using simple artifices to produce natural effects, as in the laid-out gardens at Blenheim, Kew, Stowe, Warwick Castle. He was widely criticized, but during the 20th century his popularity returned as a result of a favorable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's History of Garden Art.
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| Badminton House: features of the Brownian landscape at full maturity in the 19th century |
1804 During his last years in America, theologian and physicist Joseph Priestley spent his time writing and experimenting. On February 3, 1804, Priestley began an experiment in his Pennsylvania home, but found himself too weak to continue. He retired to his bed where he remained for the next three days. Priestley passed away there, aged seventy on the morning of February 6. 1804, Priestley was buried at Riverview Cemetery in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
1819 British official, Sir Stamford Raffles first stepped on an island known locally as ‘Singapura’ on January 29, 1819. A week later, on February 6, 1819, he signed a treaty with Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor, which established Singapore as a trading post for the British East India Company.
1820 The first 86 African American immigrants left New York on February 6, 1820 to start a settlement in present-day Liberia. The emigrants started to establish a settlement on what is now the coast of Liberia. All three whites and 22 of the emigrants died within three weeks from yellow fever. The settlement was named Liberia, which is "Land of the Free" in Latin, because it was founded by freed American slaves.
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| Map of Liberia in the 1830s |
1840 The Treaty of Waitangi (Māori: Tiriti o Waitangi) is a treaty first signed on February 6, 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and various Māori chiefs from the North Island of New Zealand. The Treaty of Waitangi gave Britain control of New Zealand while recognizing the native inhabitants' land rights. However, the English and Maori texts differed, leading to many controversies over its stipulations.
1843 The first show in America by a group of minstrels, The Original Virginia Minstrels, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City on February 6, 1843. The first uniquely American show business form, the minstrel show, began in the 1840s. These minstrels were white men who painted their faces black and performed songs in crude, often racist, imitations of black musicians.
1851 The Black Thursday bushfires that swept the state of Victoria, Australia on February 6, 1851 are considered the largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history, Approximately five million hectares, or a quarter of Victoria, was burnt, twelve lives were lost, along with one million sheep.
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| Black Thursday, February 6th. 1851, as depicted by William Strutt in 1864 |
1895 George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 at 216 Emory Street in the Pigtown section of Baltimore, Maryland. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he learned baseball skills from Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Christian Brothers, a capable baseball player.
1911 Ronald Reagan, the 40th US President, was born to Jack and Nelle Reagan on February 6, 1911 in a small apartment building in Tampico, Illinois. A film star during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Reagan was very active in politics near the end of his acting career, During the 1964 presidential election, he made a famous speech called "A Time For Choosing" in support of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, which is credited with jumpstarting his political career.
1912 Eva Braun was born in Munich on February 6, 1912. She was the second daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger, who had worked as a seamstress before her marriage. Eva Braun first met Adolf Hitler, 23 years her senior, at Heinrich Hoffmannin's photographic studio in Munich in October 1929. By the end of 1932 they had become lovers.
1918 On February 6, 1918, the Representation of the People Act was given royal assent, giving votes to women in the UK. Actually it gave votes only to women over 30, who were householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5 and graduates of British universities. It took another 10 years before women over 21 could vote, giving them parity with men.
1926 The first automated donut-making machine was invented by Adolph Levitt, who launched it at the Trausch Bakery in Dubuque, Iowa on February 6, 1926. This invention revolutionized the doughnut industry and made it possible to produce large quantities of doughnuts quickly and efficiently.
1928 Though his struggles with depression made him initially reject a lucrative job with the USA chemical firm E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., organic chemist Wallace Carothers accepted the offer in the late 1920s. Carothers began working at the DuPont Experimental Station on February 6, 1928. Carothers developed nylon during his time at DuPont and also helped lay the groundwork for neoprene.
1935 Monopoly was invented in 1934 by Charles Darrow, a Pennsylvania heating engineer who had been reduced to selling stoves. Darrow adapted Monopoly from a similar game, The Landlord's Game, devised in 1903 by Lizzie Magie. Monopoly was initially rejected by Parker Bros for having "52 fundamental playing errors." The games manufacturer bought it after Darrow enjoyed great success in selling it himself. Parker Brothers begun selling Monopoly on February 6, 1935.
1945 Reggae star Robert "Bob" Marley was born on February 6, 1945. His birthplace was the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Bob Marley's father was a English-born White Jamaican who was an officer in the British military. He was 60 years old when he
1952 The stress of World War II took its toll on King George VI of the UK's health exacerbated by his heavy smoking and subsequent development of lung cancer among other ailments, including arteriosclerosis and thromboangiitis obliterans. On the morning of February 6, 1952, George VI died in his bed at Sandringham House in Norfolk from a coronary thrombosis aged 56.
1952 Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Head of the Commonwealth when her father, King George VI, died on February 6, 1952. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1971 Golf is the only sport to have been played on the moon. Apollo 14 Astronaut Alan Shepard stashed away a makeshift six-iron inside his spacecraft and on February 6, 1971, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. His first shot was a mis-hit and only went a few feet, but the second went, as he put it, "miles and miles and miles."
1973 Emily Howell Warner was the first female commercial airline pilot in the US. On February 6, 1973, Howell Warner served for the first time as second officer on a Frontier Airlines Boeing 737. The flight departed from Denver's Stapleton Airport for Las Vegas. This marked an opening for American women in one of the last sex-segregated occupations in the civilian aviation industry.
1988 Michael Jordan won back-to-back slam dunk contest victories in 1987 and in 1988. His victory over Dominique Wilkins on February 6, 1988 in Chicago finished with a perfect 50 dunk from the free-throw line on the far end of the court to win the contest.
1998 Washington National Airport was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport on February 6, 1998 to honor President Reagan. It is the nearest commercial airport to the capital and serves the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
2019 On February 6, 2019, Nikola Dimitrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia (formerly known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), signed the accession protocol to join NATO in Brussels, Belgium. The signing marked the final step in the country's process of joining the alliance and officially welcomed North Macedonia as the 30th member of NATO.
2022 Queen Elizabeth II of the UK was the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-serving female head of state in history. She celebrated the Platinum Jubilee of her accession to the throne on February 6, 2022.
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